China Detains 120K Uighurs in Reeducation Camps: Report

XINJIANG – A report by a US-backed newsgroup has claimed that around 120,000 Uighur Muslims are currently being confined in political "re-education" camps in Xinjiang region, citing a security official with knowledge of detention system. The security chief of Kashgar city’s Chasa township, in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on condition of anonymity that “approximately 120,000” Uighurs are being held throughout the prefecture, based on information he has received from other area officials. “I have great relationships with the heads of all the government departments and we are in regular contact, informing each other on the&hellip;

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XINJIANG – A report by a US-backed newsgroup has claimed that around 120,000 Uighur Muslims are currently being confined in political “re-education” camps in Xinjiang region, citing a security official with knowledge of detention system.

The security chief of Kashgar city’s Chasa township, in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on condition of anonymity that “approximately 120,000” Uighurs are being held throughout the prefecture, based on information he has received from other area officials.

“I have great relationships with the heads of all the government departments and we are in regular contact, informing each other on the current situation,” he said, adding that he is also close with the prefecture’s chief of security.

The Chasa official added that tens of thousands of people have been detained within Kashgar city alone.

“Around 2,000 [are detained] from the four neighborhoods of Kashgar city, as well as an additional 30,000 in total from the city’s 16 villages,” he said.

Similar information was confirmed earlier by RFA’s Uighur Service which found that arrests in Xinjiang increased around the sensitive 19th Communist Party Congress in Beijing in October.